Top 111 VA Quotes & Sayings

The VA MISSION Act is one of the first bills I was fortunate enough to support and see enacted into law.

I need the VA to be flexible enough to send me outside for care.

What I want veterans to know is that VA is here to care for them. VA is a good system - health care wise, safety wise - highly comparable to any other system out there. Our oversight reviews tell us that. I'm very comfortable in the quality of our system.

Whether you're a man or a woman, you should get the same degree of healthcare from our VA.

I go the VA Hospital when I have a problem and the doctor jumps on me.

When I'm president of the United States, we're going to have a VA that cares more about our veterans than about the bureaucrats who work at the VA.

VA is a unique national resource that is worth saving, and I am committed to doing just that.

My mom works at the VA; she's been working at the VA for 15 plus years, and yet she's helping so many veterans coming back from brown Muslim countries, and my mom treats them. It's this weird - sometimes I feel torn. It's this dual identity. I'm so proud to be American, and at the same time, I disagree with our foreign policy.

A stuffy Capitol Hill hearing room differs quite a bit from the wide open, rural landscape of Louisa County, Va.

Many of Mississippi's veterans and their families know the hardship associated with driving long distances to access VA healthcare benefits.

I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.

When I go into 'You're the Worst,' I'm very glammed up, and my hair and makeup is va-va-voom. Now what I'm having fun with in 'Grease' is, honestly, I go to rehearsals with zero makeup. When I get pimples, I get excited about it, like 'Yay! It helps the character!' The frumpier and uglier and grosser, the better with Jan.

The broken VA disability claims process has failed to adequately aid veterans with toxic exposure during their military service.

When vets come home from war they are going through a tremendous change in identity. Then the VA, and others, encourage them to view themselves as disabled.

I've been doing the 'Sherman's Lagoon' strip for about 18 years, and I was a political cartoonist before that for my hometown paper in Alexandria, Va.

My first film - a challenging role and completely different from the persona that was created in Italy. I was this super energetic, vibrant, happy, volumed hair, fitted dresses, the whole Italian va-va-voom thing. And the role was a girl that was really provoking society with being unnecessarily violent - just trying to see what people's limits are. It's a really dark tunnel to get to being nasty, being full of hate. When people hate there's a big sadness and rage within them, so it was interesting to go that dark with my first experience.

Rien ne va arrêter ma quête pour te trouver" No one will stop my quest to find you.

When our veterans walk into any VA facility, they converse with men and women who speak the unique language of military service.

That massiveness of bureaucracy at the VA is chronic and has been chronic.

Accountability is a two way street. We can't just make it easier for us to fire people; we must make it easier for us to hire people. It takes VA an average of 240 days to complete the hiring process for executives joining VA from outside government. We are losing talented people because it simply takes too long.

My dad was a 30-year career Marine. He was stationed in Quantico Va., and another military base.

Congress needs to give the VA every tool possible to meet the mental health challenges facing our veterans before they get to the point of danger.

We have about 360,000 employees in the VA health care system. It's the largest health care system in the country. And the negative attention that's been put on VA has hurt the morale of our workforce. And so what we're trying to do is to get people to understand that we're doing great work every day.

Those that have received care here in Des Moines at the VA center or the VA hospital here have said that they do receive good care. However, it's getting into the system - the wait periods. We have to do something about that. The care here has been good. We're not seeing that in other states.

We have a VA hospital back home in St. Louis. Like many of our colleagues, we hear continued concerns about the access and the service. I have seen a statistic that more than 60,000 veterans today are waiting more than 6 months for an appointment at a VA hospital.

My main focus when I do my makeup is my eyes - I accentuate my eyes, and they look bigger. More 'va va voom,' I guess you can say.

We are a system where I can tell you that nobody is doing more for behavioral health care in this country than the VA.

I think that the needs of the VA and the needs of the veteran community are very, very significant. ?e're talking about a VA system in which, in the last years a million-and-a-half more people have come into the system. You're dealing with 500,000 people have come home from Iraq an Afghanistan with PTSD and TBI. You're dealing with an older veterans population from World War II and Korea who need some difficult medical help. We want to see it be more efficient. We want to see doctors go to where they're needed.

I say we put a choice card in every veteran's hands to say, 'You choose.' You control your health care. If you want to go to the VA, which most veterans like, go to the VA. But if you want to go outside of the system, here's your choice card. You go outside of the system.

We need to modernize an outdated agency, bring it into the 21st century, and ensure that the VA is better equipped to treat the health and psychological issues that are unique to our veterans.

I went to elementary school in Falls Church, Va.

I experienced what can never be duplicated in the private sector - the communal aspect of VA.

'Va Savoir' is a lovable comedy about love that looks upon life as drama and uses the world of the theater as a staging device.

For the VA to thrive as an integrated health care network, it must be agile and adaptive.

I never wore a studded leather jacket, y'know. Ne-va!

With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county

Across the VA's system in our state, the wait times are entirely too long on average.

I have been very clear about the necessity for doing whatever is required to move the VA into the 21st century.

The VA should use every tool at their disposal to support and treat our veterans, including the specialized care offered by service dogs.

By boosting oversight and accountability, we can empower the VA in its core mission of helping the men and women who have served our country.

I expect VA's inspector general and the FBI to work closely together so that we can identify and eliminate the flaws that allowed this leak and prosecute any criminal acts.

Any veteran can tell you it is already hard enough to see a doctor down at the VA and get the health care they were promised when they signed up to serve this country.

With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county.

It's too bad we can't take VA leadership and export it and give it to some of our adversaries around the planet. Let them suffer under VA's leadership.

I don't believe that the problems in the VA are necessarily about money. When I look back over the problems of the VA over the past decade, this is fundamentally a system that hasn't kept up with modernization in the way that the rest of health care in the private sector has.

After four tours of duty as a Navy SEAL officer, I came home from Iraq and watched the VA - the second-biggest bureaucracy in the country - fail my friends. The VA was broken and my friends were suffering. And yet, time and again, the only 'solution' I heard from liberals was to spend more money. It made me angry.

The VA does a lot of good things, but determining if a firm is a small business is not one of them.

Free open-source software, by its nature, is unlikely to feature secret back doors that lead directly to Langley, Va.

I graduated from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill with degrees in journalism and Spanish in 2001 and landed my first on-air job in Charlottesville, Va.

The United States government was proud that, although perhaps 100,000 Iraqis had died in the Gulf War of 1991, there were only 48 American battle casualties. What it has concealed from the public is that 206,000 veterans of that war filed claims with the VA for injuries and illnesses. In the years since that war, 8,300 veterans have died, and 160,000 claims for disability have been recognized by the VA.

Successful people are people of (mo.ti.va.tion), motivation, and action.

On Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va., there are statues of five Confederate luminaries and then, incongruously in this company, one of Arthur Ashe.

Norman Hooten's dedication and commitment to serving his fellow veterans is what VA is all about.

My mom worked at the VA for years, so any time I can do anything to help, it's a must.

I'm still Elliott Yamin. I'm still the funky white Jewish boy from Richmond, Va.

When an American veteran comes to VA, it is not up to him to employ a team of lawyers to get VA to say yes. It is up to VA to get the veteran to yes, and that is customer service.

Turning the heat up on the red carpet while still looking like a lady isn't as easy as it sounds. Too much va-va-voom, and a girl can look like she just stepped out of 'Jersey Shore.' Too little, and she'll look like a sister wife.

Who knew that all this time the nectar of the Gods was in my va-jay-jay.

I am frustrated and outraged by the slow nature of change at the VA.

The VA secretary runs the second largest federal agency in the country, providing services to American patriots who risked everything in service to this nation.